Most people worry about their health. But very few will ever make the necessary changes to improve their health. Eating prepared vegetables from whole food stores or reducing saturated fats and having a chicken sandwich salad won’t cut them off. You cannot achieve real health through half-hearted efforts to be healthy. This includes partial diets.
Here are the plant-based diets used today:
• Vegetarian Diet — Vegetarian diet is mainly a plant food diet. It minimizes meat and milk products but may contain fish and/or milk and poultry such as cheese and eggs. The emphasis of the vegetarian diet is mainly on plant food but also on animal food. Both cooked plants and animal-based foods are permitted in the vegetarian diet.
• Vegan diet – The vegan diet is similar to the vegetarian diet, but it excludes all foods based on animals, including fish, cheese, and eggs. The vegan diet makes it possible to eat plant food cooked.
• Raw vegan diet – The raw vegan diet is somewhat like the vegan diet, except that it excludes all foods based on animals, but also all cooked foods, including cooked plant foods. Cooked foods (plants or animals) are foods that are dead, without life. They require extra body energy to be digested and absorbed, which can be used for other purposes, such as healing and rejuvenation. Raw plant foods are natural foods. They are not cooked or chemically modified and contain no additives or preservatives made by man. Raw plant foods are alive. Their natural strength of life is intact; this force of life is conveyed to us when we eat raw plant food.
Health issues uncommon in the past are frequently experienced today. All, everywhere, serious illnesses and diseases are widespread. The self-education of foods and nutrients within them is one of the greatest measures to improving your own health. Even with sufficient knowledge of food and nutrition, we remain unaware of how optimal health can be achieved. The knowledge we need about food and nutrition is best obtained by reading books and uniting other learning tools like the web to find out the truth about these important topics.
Plant-based food is on the rise. That’s why I imagine you might have picked up this book. Animal farming contributes more global emissions of greenhouse gasses than transport, causing increasing temperatures and sea levels. Livestock and its by-products account for at least 32 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually or 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. And while millions around the world lack access to affordable, nutritious food, 35 percent of the world’s grains are fed to livestock.
People often think that vegans do not eat meat because they want to save animals. Although this is true in many cases, there are other reasons why many people make the switch. Some other reasons are as follows:
Personal health – The distribution of animal products is closely linked to lower rates of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In particular, avoiding red meat reduces the intake of carcinogens and your cancer risk. Commercially grown and processed meat contains antibiotics that are routinely used to keep animals healthy enough to consume and non-human hormones that increase the growth rate of the animal and/or the production of milk for increased profits. 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used for consumption on animals and six FDA approved steroid hormones are administered regularly. In addition, the widespread use of animal feed pesticides adds another form of hormonal disruptors and neurotoxins found in commercial meats.
Meat and dairy take a long time to digest and our bodies must produce chemicals during this process to break it down; this process creates waste that our bodies must then work hard to eliminate. Raw fruits and vegetables are easy and quick to digest so that our bodies can work on other jobs, such as healing, instead of the bulk of our usable energy to digest the food we are not intended to eat. A raw, healthy diet will give you more energy to do what you want to do every day.
Ethics – If you ate meat long before you went vegan like me, you probably used to be amused or perhaps somewhat alarmed when you heard the latest PETA news. You can’t long be a vegan and don’t see the cruel vision we have imparted to our animal friends. Just put it, we know how to eat healthily, we can live without eating meat, and we don’t have to cruelly treat animals to survive.
Chasing is always a matter of conversation that affects the cruelty of animals every day. Some hunters, particularly in rural areas, are trying to supply their families with food. And I know many people have small organic farms and raise animals to improve and locate their food supplies. I know this is a cry far from factory farming. The animal either lives a natural life until its death or is more humanely treated during its lifetime. Eating venison from the wild or organic eggs from your own free-range chickens gives your family a better source of nutrients than commercial meat and dairy, and has a better source of calories than some of the affordable food available in the U.S., like frozen dinners or fast food. A lot of people agree that having a connection with the animals you eat and not being completely oblivious to the actual killing and processing is a better experience through and through when eating meat. If people were better educated about other food choices, they wouldn’t be so dependent on meat for protein, iron, fat, and calories, and if they had to kill and dress their own animals for food personally, there would be a lot more vegans in this world.
